Fresh Radeons! AMD Launches Three New GPUs, Including an RX 6950 XT Flagship

pcmag.com:

The GPU market has been a wild place over the last few years. Graphics cards have been selling for steeply elevated prices, with some models altogether unavailable for months on end. Prices have started to stabilize here in mid-2022, but this state of affairs has made the announcement of new graphics cards more scrutinized than ever: Where is this tumultuous market going next?

One clue, for moment: into recycling older designs. AMD has announced three new graphics cards aimed at the midrange and high-end market. But from first looks, there's nothing revolutionary here, with the cards slotting between existing GPUs, creating finer slices within the existing Radeon line. As a result, these new cards aren't actually all that new. (Whether they cost more than their enhancements warrant is another question.)

The new cards are the Radeon RX 6650 XT, the Radeon RX 6750 XT, and the Radeon RX 6950 XT. If you look closely at their specs (and you are up to speed on the rest of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 family), then you’ll notice that these cards look familiar. That’s because all are based on existing GPU designs, but with higher GPU clock speeds. You can see their respective "inspirations" in the chart below...

For example, the GPU die on the new Radeon RX 6650 XT is the same as the one on the older Radeon RX 6600 XT. In terms of overall supporting resources, the amount of RAM and the memory interface on these cards are also the same. The same holds true for the other two new cards and their counterparts that are numbered "50" lower.

AMD pushed up the clock speed of all of these new GPUs relative to their older counterparts to give them more bandwidth and additional performance in games. The TDP on each card is also set higher; it's